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By Michael McCarthy Environment Editor In one of the world's great wildlife spectacles, tens of thousands of lesser flamingos gather at a South African wetland - but it is a spectacle now gravely threatened by pollution.

By Jennifer Smith, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Mar. 12--Second of two parts When the waters of the Forge River turned cloudy and rank, and the fish began to die, many Mastic residents figured sewage was to blame. In a way, they were right.